Quarter in a payphoneDrying laundry on the lineWatching Sun Tea in the windowPocket Watch tellin' timeSeems like only yesterday, I'd get a blank cassetteRecord the country countdown, 'cause I couldn't buy it yet

If we drove all the way to Dallas just to buy an Easter dressWe’d take along a Rand McNally, stand in line to pay for gasGod knows that shifting gears ain’t what it used to beI learned to drive that 55 just like a queen, three on a tree

Hey whatever happened to, waitin' your turnDoing it all by hand, cause when everything is handed to youIt's all only worth as much as the time you put inIn all just seems so good the way we had itBack before everything became, automatic

If you had something to sayYou'd write it on a piece of paperThen you put a stamp on itAnd they'd get it three days laterBoys would call the girlsAnd girls would turn them downStaying married was the only way to work your problems out

Hey whatever happened to, waitin' your turnDoing it all by hand, cause when everything is handed to youIt's all only worth as much as the time you put inIn all just seems so good the way we had itBack before everything became, automaticAutomatic

Let's put the windows downWindows with the cranksCome on let's take a pictureThe kind you gotta shake

Hey whatever happened to, waitin' your turnDoing it all by hand, cause when everything is handed to youIt's all only worth as much as the time you put inIn all just seems so good the way we had itBack before everything became, automatic, automatic